Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.